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Theology for
The Layman
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perience is of one nature being
possessed by one person, we
cannot honestly say that we
know enough even of person
and nature in man to assert that
one to one is the only possible
relation. Of the infinite being
we have no experience at all: if
God tells us that in Him there
are three Persons, we have no
reason to question, we must
simply try to understand.
Now tor the objection — the
commonest of all from the in
telligent atheist — that if each
of the three Persons is God,
then there must be three Gods.
Perhaps the quickest way to
show the fallacy here is to take
the phrase “Three Men.” Brown
and Jones and Robinson are
three distinct persons each
possessing human nature. So far,
you say, there is a complete
parallel. Father, Son and Spirit
are three distinct persons, each
possessing divine nature.
But observe the difference.
Brown and Jones and Robinson
each has his own allotment of
human nature: Brown does no1
understand with Jones’s intel
lect; Jones does not love with
Robinson’s will: each has his
own. The phrase three men,
then, means three distinct per
sons, each with his own separate
human nature, his own separate
equipment as man.
The phrase three Gods could
only mean three distinct persons,
each with His own separate
Divine nature, His own separate
equipment as God. But this is
not so. They possess one single
nature; they do in fact what
our three men could not do —
they know with the same intel
lect, love with the same will.
They are three Persons and each
is God; but they are one God.
not three.
If this were all, we could saj
that at least we saw no contra
diction in the doctrine of the
Blessed Trinity. But we should
probably say that we saw noth
ing else either. To learn that the
infinite divine nature, already
mysterious enough to us, is
possessed by three entities more
mysterious still, merely triples
the darkness. It is in learning
about the personalities of the
Persons that we begin to find
ourselves growing in the light.
We must, God aiding, bring
our minds to bear upon that
infinite act of generation by
which God the Father begets
His Son; and upon that infinite
union in love by which the Holy
Spirit proceeds from Father and
Son. With that we are coming
nearer the answer to our ques
tion — in what does God’s life
consist?
Confirmation In Navy Chapel
THE BULLETIN, July 26, 1958—PAGE 5
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Bishop Luke K. Aral of Yokohama, administers the sacra
ment of Confirmation to Cpl. Milton Morris of Waquoit,
Mass., and 13 others at a camp .chapel in the U. S. Naval
Air Station in Atsugi, Japan. Standing in rear is Father
Gerald J. Ryan, of New York an Augustinian Missionary
in Japan. (NC Photos)
Dennis Ludwig Sr.
Services In Augusta
AUGUSTA — Funeral serv
ices for Denis Sebastian Ludwig
Sr. were held July 1st at the
Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Jos-
. eph L. LeRoy, S.J., officiating.
Survivors are one daughter,
Mrs. Louise Ludwig Daniels of
North Augusta, S. C., one son,
Denis Ludwig Jr., of North Au
gusta; two sisters, Mrs. W. H.
Oetjen Sr., and Miss Helen Lud
wig, both of Augusta; three bro
thers, James Ludwig of Augus
ta, Edward Ludwig of Edgefield,
S. C. and Alphonse Ludwig of
Atlanta; four grandchildren;
four great-grandchildren, and a
number of nieces and nephews.
Question
Box
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continual prayers to God that
His kingdom may flourish . . .
but who also atone for the sins
of other men, still more than for
their own, by mortification, pre
scribed or voluntary, of mind
and body — such must be said
to have chosen the better part.”
THE PHRASE “the better
part,” was used by our Divine
Lord in admonishing Martha of
Bethany, who was “distracted
by waiting on many needs”:
“Martha, Martha, how many
cares and troubles thou hast!
But only one thing is necessary;
and Mary has chosen the better
part of all, that which shall
never be taken from her.” (St.
Luke X: 42)
Here Christ singled out Mar
tha as a type of the active life;
Mary, of the contemplative.
And, although the former is
good, the latter is of its nature
more noble, for it will not cease
with death but will last forever.
BESIDES objectively trans
cending the active life in rank,
the contemplative life is in itself
of greater meritorious and prac
tical value.
OF GREATER MERITORI
OUS value, because the love of
God is generically more meri
torious than love of neighbor
for God’s sake. But the contem
plative life pertains more im
mediately to love of God. Thus,
it is of more merit.
OF GREATER PRACTICAL
value, simply because the con
templative lives in constant in
timate union with the First
Cause of all g r a c e, without
whom even the most skilled
preacher (who is but an instru
ment of divine favor) could not
possibly win a single soul to
good.
“Hands uplifted,” wrote Bos-
suet, “rout more battalions than
hands that strike.” “I want
Trappists,” demanded a famed
Chinese bishop; “I even want
them to abstain from all exterior
ministry in order that nothing
may distract them from the
SERVICES FOR
V. W. SHARP
SAVANNAH — Funeral serv
ices for Vincent W. Sharp were
held July 5th at the Sacred
Heart Church.
He was an honorary member
of the Knights of Columbus,
member of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, No. 803,
and a member of the Holy Name
Society.
work of prayer, penance, and
sacred studies.” “Ten Carmelite
nuns, praying,” declared another
missionary bishop, “will be of
greater help to me than twenty
missionaries, preaching.”
NO ONE REALLY KNOWS
the reason underlying the con
version of a heathen, for ex
ample, in the darkest corner of
the world. Yet surely linked to
every such conversion, or to the
heroic suffering of another soul
under persecution for his faith,
are the silent prayers and sac
rifices of an obscure cloistered
monk or nun.
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SERVICES FOR
JAMES J. JOYCE
DECATUR — Funeral servic
es for James J. Joyce were held
July 3rd at St. Thomas More
Church, Rev. T. J. Roshetko,
officiating.
Survivors are his wife, the
former Irene A. Cassidy, of At
lanta; son, Don T. Joyce, Hay
ward, Calif.; daughter, Miss
Mary Elizabeth Joyce, Hayward,
Calif., and sisters, Mrs. James
McCabe, Cleveland; Mrs. E. L.
Kimes, Chicago; Sister M.
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